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The major concept for this assignment is security – I am interested in ONLINE Security – the internet provides a lot of anonymous ‘masking’ of one’s identity – the physical body and dynamic personality. This has simultaneously advantageous and discriminatory elements when presenting oneself to the ‘online’ community or virtual worlds.
The anonymity achieved in the virtual world may allow more freedom to express and present oneself but it also allows a measure of impersonality and unaccountability – unlike our society which is governed by standards and behaviour – the internet is quite a ‘chaos’ derived state. One has to consider the ramifications and influence on society also.
In my experience, people are quite articulate and bold when writing statements or their own thoughts – in letters, notes, chat rooms, blogs. I have encountered quite a few interesting personalities online and I find that sometimes the people that I know ‘online’ are not the same people I know in the ‘real’ world. Often time’s people speak their mind more openly, direct and free without fear of rebuttal – or at least – the rebuttals are palatable and less confronting because the internet allows a level of void less feeling. IT IS THIS CONCEPT WHICH INTRIGUES ME MOST.
We are free to express ourselves and yet we can not CONVEY the emotion that makes us human (not considering emoticons).
What can be expressed and what can not…
SECURITY of REPRESENTATION– both FREE & RESTRICTIVE!
I thought a lot of freedom of expression and the idea of revolt.
As I have previously researched – about DADAism – a lot of the themes were to express the ANTI-establishment – done with photomontage and text. My ideas for the website are heavily influenced by this and also PROPOGANDA poster art – the literal display on a wall…. The idea is to have a page that DYNAMICALLY changes but reveals more and more…like tearing off layers of posters – a metaphor for the personas one adopts in the virtual world.
The anonymity achieved in the virtual world may allow more freedom to express and present oneself but it also allows a measure of impersonality and unaccountability – unlike our society which is governed by standards and behaviour – the internet is quite a ‘chaos’ derived state. One has to consider the ramifications and influence on society also.
In my experience, people are quite articulate and bold when writing statements or their own thoughts – in letters, notes, chat rooms, blogs. I have encountered quite a few interesting personalities online and I find that sometimes the people that I know ‘online’ are not the same people I know in the ‘real’ world. Often time’s people speak their mind more openly, direct and free without fear of rebuttal – or at least – the rebuttals are palatable and less confronting because the internet allows a level of void less feeling. IT IS THIS CONCEPT WHICH INTRIGUES ME MOST.
We are free to express ourselves and yet we can not CONVEY the emotion that makes us human (not considering emoticons).
What can be expressed and what can not…
SECURITY of REPRESENTATION– both FREE & RESTRICTIVE!
I thought a lot of freedom of expression and the idea of revolt.
As I have previously researched – about DADAism – a lot of the themes were to express the ANTI-establishment – done with photomontage and text. My ideas for the website are heavily influenced by this and also PROPOGANDA poster art – the literal display on a wall…. The idea is to have a page that DYNAMICALLY changes but reveals more and more…like tearing off layers of posters – a metaphor for the personas one adopts in the virtual world.
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